SHIPPING NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10207, 18 February 1919, Page 2

SHIPPING NEWS

” ' f’itASHS OF THE i!(»S : ■-■■ A FEBRUARY. ’ ■//'' ....

Tiiis jjAi-r; ,;V/~ ’ Sun rises. 5.16 a.m.; sets. 6.53_ p.m. **.; .Moon rises. 7.55 a.m.; sets, 8.27 a-in. - • -■ Hist water. 7.11 a.m.fJ/38 pmi. ■ ARRIVED MONDAY. FEBRUARY. /17., ” KOUTUNUI. s.s. (4.5 a.m 4 ), 171 .tone, Thompson, from Napier. No. 1. north, ’iuitea wharf.) _ ’ . „ • RIPPLE. B.s. (7.30 a.m.). 370 tons, . * ° ..varlson, from. Napier aiul Gisborne* .. Taranaki street wharf.) . -.. WAiPOKI. s.s. (3.30 a.m.). 1919 tons, ■l-.- lyre, from Westport. ; (No.’ 6. . south, ; - - iuech's wharf.) , ....... STELLA, s-s. (10.35 p.m.>. 299 tons. iamilton, from Port Chalmers. (Ferry. ///, barf-) •

SAILED. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 17. HANAN.UE s.s. (3.23' p.m.), 127 tons. Cook, for Auckland. KAXTOA, s.s. (5 p.m.), 305 tons. Wild*" ■vvf' man", for 'Nelson and Motueka. ■ J . KAPDNI, s.s. (5 p.m.),--375 tons, Gib- ' ■ . jon. for Patea. ", ' QUEEN OF THE SOUTH/ s.s. . (6 p.m.), 10S tons. Harvey, for F0xt0n..... . HAPOUKIKA, s.s. (6.20 p.m.), ,1203 tons, Macdonald, for Picton and Nelson. NGATOEO, a.s. (6.20 p.m), 1137 tons, Daniell, for' Gisborne. ' WAKATU. s.s. (6.30 p.m.), 157 tons, ■Wills, for Kaikoura. ■ ■' - . MAORI. s.s. (7.45 p.m.), 3412 tons, ■-. Cameron, for ;Lyttelton. . ! ■ - • BLENHEIM, s.s. (8.5* p.m.), 120 tons, .-Wilkinson, for Havelock. , . o-tt ■ STORM, s'.® (8.40 p.hi.), 403 tons, Cote'' 'wan. for Wanganui. ■ - KOUTUNUI. s.s. (10.15 p-m.), 171 tons, ■"i- fhamsen, for Tokomaru Bay-,,,. ~,, j EXPECTED ARRIVALS. ‘ flikaii, Nelson. Motueka," to-day" Max>oTirika, Nelson and Picton. to-day ‘ Mararoa, Lyttelton, tordax f.®''.Moeraki, Lyttelton.- to,-day„ - - ■ Waverley, Patea. -to-day • ; v ".Kahn. .Eaat-Uoast.ttorday,. , , / Opawa, Blenheim, tq-day . ’■ ■ Maori, ‘Lyttelton, Wednesday Siievlc; Lyttelton. 'Wednesday ” ■■ ■Queen of the South. Fbxton.- Wednesday Cortona, New Plymouth. Wednesday &urma, Auckland. Wednesday - ' - Begulus, West Coast. -Thursday •• jlatatua. London. Thursday ■ ,-r. - ‘ Alexander. -.-Tarakohe. -Thursdnv. ■ -- ' llonowai, Auckland, Napier. Thursday,„ ■ Wokatu, Lyttelton,,Thursday . . . , ■ - Blenheim, . Sounds. Friday .PROJECTED* DEPARTURES. Kara, • Qreymou?ii. today*x Karomu, Greymouth, to-day ‘ - re; ■ Boho, -Tokomaru Bay, to-day. (■ - Opawa, Blehheim." to-day, 8 p.m; TCapiti, Wanganui, to-day, 2 p,m, ; HaWsrh,' Patea; to-day,-4-p.m. 1.,.. jt Sipple-.*‘-Napier/ Gishorne, ..AJaitiQ, to- ,— ", day,.6 p.m. , / Nlkau, Nelson, to-day, 5 p.m. , Mararoa. Lyttelton, to-day. 7.45 p.m. .; Uoeraki, Sydney, to-day. 5 p.m. Waverley, Patea, Wednesday Stella. Chatham Islands. Wednesday ,; Qpgep,,;gf 1 thq Squth Vi Foxton, Wednes-" v‘>“ , dav". ‘' Lu - "•* 7/ . Soma^^egtTOrtr^toesday - Kakapo. Westport, Wednesday ‘ Mapourifcai ‘ Picton. Nelson, Wednesday. Maori, Lyttelton. Wednesday. Regains. "Nelson, West Coast, Thursday Alexander. Nelson and West Coast, ’/Thursday • r "'ri'f ; Uonowai, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Thursday. Hinemoa, Cook Strait. Thursday .... Palopha. San Francisco. Thursday i’;u - Port Lincoln, Londoh.’via Bombay, Frl- •-/' " ' day ‘ • ' ,* W£kafu,’'Lyltelton;'Kaikoura,"Friday I*,, -TELEGRAPHED' MOVEMENTS • - SUVA, Saturday—Kona, for Auokland,SYDNEY, Monday Ihumata,' 'from Auckland,".Wiltshire' and Forest Hohl'e" (10/p.mt), “.from " New Zealand. . • * •«• • * ■ ...-. ADELAIDE. . Monday—Wallsand, from -Now. Zealand,; - Kauri (5.45.p.m,). from- - Melbourne. - .■■■.• ■ AUCKLAND, Monday—Burma, (0.25 p.m.), for, Weßimttom, f . NSW .Plymouth:. Monday, - km ■-. (6.16 o-mA, from 'Wellingthni'' :• ’ NELSON/ Sahday—Alexiadfer (It plm.) . " for' "Westport and' Greymouth;' 'Monday -7 (7 am.), for- Wellington/ ■ - ; ■ GBBYMOUTH. Monday Paeroa (9 '’ ■ ».-Tn.l l ffom /Wellington,' Via Westport. ' LYTTELTON, Powell ' • )CB-40"ikm.)7"from -Wellnigtan;’'''"Putiki"(4 p.m'.)/.for Wellinirton.' --Mararoa' (7;20 p.m.), for* Wellington. - Moerabi •(9 J/.m 1 ) -, fcr :WeUinKton. 7- ■ • -* " - - An Auckland Press Association-message ptatea; that the steamer Kotiri grounded at Onehnnga on Saturday but 1 floated o 3 six hours later, undamaged." She kas left for Greymouth. . - ( .The Corinna leaves- Now Plymouth to-' day for Wellington, and. is due. here'on Wednesday morning. ,r; The Kara and Karamu leave to-night, rbably for Greynionth. and the Komaand Kakapo sail for Westport to-. . plorxow. " . •. 1 The Echo should, come off the slip • to-day" to sail later for Tokomaru Bay. The Ngatbro left for Gisborne yester- . : dttY," and from that port takes a load ’ of sheep to Lyttelton. • " Tho Ngakuta, now at Wellington, le:i "’ tarns •to Greymouth - for another load . pf coal at the end of the -week, ■ TO-DAY J S BERTHAGE." ' T'v' Mo-nardai "Ferry" "berth: "Md'etaki/ No. " C notth. Qaeffi's ' Wha'i i ft"iases'/ I NoV''3, ' ‘SHtff’i : wharfNikitt, '’No/ ■ 10; 1 ’Queen's wharf; OOdwaV' No. IT/'north;' Queen's , ” . wharf; Warerley , KingV wharfmPutiki;' Wo." 12, -Queen's wharf. MAPOUEIKA DELAYED. The Mapourika was ;to sail at noon yes l ■'- '"terday for Picton and Nelson* but as 'sh’e‘‘ was one short of her complement of firs' taen she had to wait until the gap was fined. A fireman was secured later in the aftampon- and the Mapo#rika was able to sail about (USO last night. POET AUGUSTA AT SYDNEY, s.-.* V Deeply laden with a general,, cargo. ?, / ’from New, York, the Commonwealth and ■ . "Dominion liner Fort Augnstra .arrived - at "Sydney on February 7 th. The Port • Augusta came vrla ‘ Panama Canal, and -- had. rather an eventful trip. ' When the /--.-'•vessel' arrived at Colon fourteen mem- -■' hers pi the crew "were, landed jsufloring frpm'- Jnflufflaia.', " Their ' plnbeS "were -taken by" "a" "himilaV* 1 "ndicibe?"of' "naw lives?* ( On' thS'fun" heroes the Pacific, a- *" call" was’ made at ■ Pitcairn Island to pick up the shipwrecked, crew of. the A®, wrecked barbuen tip© , St. James., , -Captain M, Allen is in charge of the -r Port Augusta, which has not been an " r • 'Sydney-for-two years. The vesselcisi ■ due her this month. ; .»«. t Tim. paenyyobth, "'The’-stoamep Farmworthi./arrived ..- at " , Sydney on Fobruarv 7th from St. Vin- . cent. After loading part cargo at Newcastle, the Farnworth will proceed to ■" Now Zealand, where she will complete tor loading for the United Kingdom., '7;"'tid3HINEMOA. .. / “ The- Hinemoa loaves here at daybreak on Thursday for Cook Strait lighthouses. Qii her return a few days later she will tall for the South- " THE ESSEX. i The F. and S. liner Essex is duo at Wellington to-day from Wuuganui )ind / /1 sails on Friday-for Gishorne. She returns to Wellington from that port and on March M for Pert Said,

; THE POET-LINCOLN. The -Port /Lincoln; V-liich arrived hero from Auckland on Sunday, leaves on Friday- for London, via Bombay. SHAW-SAVXLL STEAMERS. . The Burma left Auckland yesterday, and should arrive here about midday to-morrow. She will sail later for Lyt-telton-and-Port Chalmers,-.returning to Wellington,, whence ,she .will .leave for tie United Kingdom early in March. • The Matatua is due here from London ort*‘Thursday‘mrorning:The Suevic, which arrived at Lyttul>.*ton/.last"Fridayv*is, expected, to- leave the southern/,.port- for.-Wcliinstou to-mor-row. ■ The -Mahia left" Newcastle yesterday morning" for Whangarci. She is due there on Saturday morning. The -War Citadel left Newcastle on Sunday fot’Napier" and'is'due there on "Friday; 11■ ii o a/■* " * " OEONTES’AT’SYDNEY. " When" the Orient ‘liner* Orbntes "berthed at Woolloomooloo ' Bav oh" February 4th (states the Sydney" "Shipping List"') the - camouflaging ■ and ■ war-grey colouring, which had assisted to (jeccivo Üboat commanders dul'ing the iw.ar period. had. entirely ■ disappeared. The steamer was painted in her old pre-wax colours, consisting of "a black hull, with red "water-lino; ’buff -and white deck fittings and masts, and yellow funnel. She is thus-the first well-known Austarliau liner,to .enter port since the signing, of tEe, ...armistifie with .all the traces of her war colouring obliterated. It 'is eight “months""since 'the Orontcs ‘lusT'-ViMWir 'Sv«fi , «.v/*‘aiiff''dh-tißg. that period she made six or seven trips between' ’GreUt ’Britain -and-‘-the United States, carrying- American troops. Like ■ many othetj. l ./vesselst-wuthi-Australian associations. she .bas had . a,rather eventful war history. , .caused serious /ravages 'one/ batch of 19W 'American' "soldiers ’ carried, and ‘oil 1 ‘t’l/fe" Short' vdlvWffi '"to' :t Great Brita,in : 'over 60 "'were buried ‘at 'sea, while '7o‘'membto'of' ! tho"'ship''B/'6row were attacked. Ther-Orontes' waa--steaining in the-convoy " that included-the ill-fated Otranto, •another., -unit of. the Ortent line, (which collided with the ,8.1. liner Kashmir off the Irish coast during a spell of dlhei heaviest woadher experienced in that region (or years.. Travelling without lights, and wallowing, in mountainous-seas, practically every vessel- in the' Convoy -was" in imminent danger of destruction -by collision. An enormous sea which crashed . down on to ."the deck of the Orontes, -completely , wrecked - the, smoking-room and carried away-many-of-the-deck fittings. ’ SHIPBUILDING IN ’AUSTRALIA. - /Mr E.- Q’HaUoxaii,-president of the Federated Society of Boilermakers, and Mr A. Mclhnes, assistant secretary, paid a" Visit to 'Ne.wcasHe 'recently for the purposo "of ", inspecting the " local shipbuilding 5 yards. ‘ ‘' "Bpeaklng'"bf th 6 fhdgrdik "of the in(Tuatty iiiYhh’ different ‘yards’ Tn" tlio Commonwealth, Mr O’Halloran stated that this was fair at AVilliamstown, whero "there- were-two Isherwooß sEips'in course -of construction. The -chief diffloulty, in common- with all- the- other shipbuilding yards, -was the intermittent supply of •plates: and ’material. Fifty boilermakers "were employed on tbe-work at Williamstown, and . 120 at, _Walclo Island, while at Cockatoo tiiore weije 827 boilermakers employed .in the shipbuilding., yard. Mr Mclhnes .states that, the ifiim .of Messrs Poole and Company, ..-ffete .with .the . erection of. / workshops, slipways," etc." on a site fieSr -Birkenhead, .Port. Adelaide, where they intend to con'struct .four Ishorwo6d'‘slcel ships for the Colfuiion (v edl tli' ’ G'Cverh'tncnt. ■'" “WEECK OF THE ST/; JAMES. ' "‘Berths and""Dominipn liner Port “ 'Augusta, -there -"arrived in Sydney on February 7th the captain and crew of-.the .American" four-masted: barquentine - St- James, which, was lost in the Pacific - Ocean (states : the Sydney "Shipping List”). The. St. James, which was formerly a barque, left Vancouver on -October."eth/ with a full cargo of large-sized /pieces of .timber, for Durban. All went .well, until *at .4 o'clock one morning the. --vessel . touched on a raef near Oeiib island;/" which' 'iF 120 miles north by ’’west'" of 'Pitcairn -Island. The St. James'soon-settled-down, on the reef, andw,was. .expected., to. become a total wreck,, .As Qen-o Island-, is only 25ft above sea leveL and as. the shipwrecked men v®"re. strangers,, it . was decided to make for - Pitcairn. Island,. _ which was hccordincly". done. . ‘ After /being on Pitcairn" Island for some days, a schooner called (the Messenger" was; chartered to proceed* to'-the-scene--of the wreck. Tbe ownera of the. .schooner.. being familiar •with-the-scene of. the .disaster made for ■the lagoon, . where .the ,S.t. ..James was Jving, and took off a quantity of the vessel's stores. Having-accomplished this task;"a retnrn.'was made to Pitcairn" Island' "whereYhe shipwreckeduorew boardrid'- rtbo“Port- •’Augusta f j eventually arriv'fng at’Syilm>y:’‘rTihen'«aptain.nof the St. James -attributes*, tho t disaster ,to abnor-mal-currents, .which.-.swept tbe. vessel cn to the reef. Tho St. James was a wooden vessel of 1536 tons gross and 1453 nett. She-was 'built at Bath, Maine, in 1883, by J/‘McDonald, and "had the following dimehsiOUF:— Length" 318ft-sih; beam 41ft 3in", and depth--23ft linr and- was owned by—Messrs’-Hind, ite-lp -end Co., of San Francisco. The - St/-. James, was to have come to Sydney from " Durban in order to . load , copra,,fhqrp Jor San Francisco through, .the agency Messrs Horwood and,Co., ~,.,r,( T iw. /wmv "\ " . Further particulars have .come to hand in connection with the. loss of the American schooner" Espada. The" vessel left Levnka .on January 21st, and shortly afterwards ran into a "heavy rain squall, and ran'on the Barrier reef) 16 miles off the port‘ of departure. The-vessel was valued at 3315,000, and her" car go at 3923,000. " She was subsequently seld to Messrs Bhrns, PbMp add Co., Ltd./ for <6610. • OVBESEA-’VESSELS ■ ’BRINGING ..... -—CARGO. ** - "■ Kosoku Maru—Due Wellington Feb.; left Japan-Nov. 26tb. ./n/Bort/,Au«uata (ta..hunkarlwDue Wellington ~,.Fabt.-, left. „Nevf....<,Yorfc December 19th. .for ~A.Ufit-Kaka,,, (C. and D. Lino.) , Oxfordehiro—Duo" Wellington Fob; left Liverpool Deb Airtived " Auckland Feb. Ist (N.Z.S. Co.) Mumari —Duo Wellington Feb. 18tb; left Liverpool Dec. 22nd. (Shaw, Saville.) * Matatua./(in-.ballast>-*-Duo Feb. 2dth; left Home. Jan. Sth. ..(Shaw, Eavill.) ~ Kpapehu.. (in bnßust/TgPue. -Wellington Feb. 20th; left Plymohtfi Jan. 9th. (N.z.s. Co.) - :. Zealnndic, (in balldit)-ypue" Now Zeatend'Nter. Yndl;’/left Home /Jaa., 18th; left" Panama Fcb/Bh." (Shiiw/ Savill). "Port MelbSurhb'fm BailSst)—Due Auckland Mat. Sth/ 'TeTt r London-'Jan. 25th. (C. and'D/'ldno.)• Hdrorata—Due Wellington March 32m1; leaves London February Ist. (N.Z.S. Duo Wellington April; to leave St; Join;-" (N;Z. and 8.—C0.) •

•’ SAILERS. San Fraiciacp to Wellington—Tiare Tupbrd (ihbtor-sHip)/' 'sailed Nov. 19th; ’C/' 81" HolmeST (sch)/ sailed " Deo. 20th; Edvard May (bq), sailed ' Jan. Bth. (Union Co.). Luzon (sch)/ sailed Jan. sth. (Vacuum Oil Co.) '■ - San- Francisco -to -i Auckland—Esther Buhno- (sch),-■ sailed )' Manurewa (bq), sailed Nov-;-Albert Mayer,,(sch), to sail; Hteperian,~sailod. ■ San Francisco to Lyttelton—Caroline (sch), to sail, Feb.; John and Winthrop (sch), sailed Sept. 17th. New York "to" Wellington—Titania (bq), sailed Nov " 7th 1 (Dalgotv -and-Co.) St. John to Wellington—Terpsichore (ship), sailed Dec,' 23rd. , (N.ZiB. Co.) San Francisco. to • Wanganui—Wanganui .sailed (Vacuum ‘ Vancouver’ / to ’ We)(flnit'c!h—Dartford (bq), sailed JanElSth"/' (Utfidh Cod

-V'V - . X).' H. . M. . few Moon .... s 10 37 a.iu. firet' Quarter .. 8 8 22 a.m. full iLooii " ...i. ' is U 8 a .to. .■■‘ last’ Quarter :,' A